Country Assessments

Afghanistan: Humanitarian Response Plan 2018-2021 (2020 Mid-Year Monitoring Report)

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2020

Countries: Afghanistan

Topics: Climate Change, Disasters, Livelihoods, Public Health, Renewable Resources

Added: 12/01/2021

After 40 years of war, annual natural disasters and persistent poverty, the people of Afghanistan have been dealt another deadly blow from COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown Afghanistan into an unprecedented health, social and economic crisis requiring urgent action and solidarity from the international community. With a fragile health...

Mining for Peace in Afghanistan

Source: US Institute of Peace, 2012

Author(s): Rebecca Kullman and Gordon Lubold

Countries: Afghanistan

Topics: Economic Recovery , Extractive Resources

Added: 25/02/2020

The ongoing security transition in Afghanistan to be completed in 2014 has dominated discussions about the country’s future, but the economic transition will also be a challenge. With so much at stake, many are looking at the country’s abundant natural resources as an “economic life raft.”

Peacebuilding in Rural Colombia—A Collective Perception of the Integrated Rural Reform (IRR) in the Department of Caquetá

Source: Land, 2020

Author(s): Maximilian Graser, Michelle Bonatti, Luca Eufemia, Héctor Morales, Marcos Lana, Katharina Löhr, and Stefan Sieber

Countries: Colombia

Topics: Conflict Causes, Conflict Prevention, Governance, Land, Peace Agreements, Renewable Resources

Added: 25/02/2020

The 2016 peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP created institutional space for an effective implementation of needed rural reforms. However, the change of power structures also contains risks, like the deterioration of natural resources and the strengthening of other armed groups. By addressing collective perceptions regarding...

Hpa-An Township: Environmental Scoping Report and Recommendations

Source: UN Environment Programme / OCHA Joint Environment Unit, 2019

Author(s): Amanda George and Theresa Dearden

Countries: Myanmar

Topics: Assessment, Climate Change, Disasters, Humanitarian Assistance, Land, Programming, Renewable Resources

Added: 10/02/2020

This report presents the results of an environmental scoping mission by the UN Environment Programme / OCHA Joint Environment Unit (JEU) and Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) to Hpa An Township, Kayin State in Southeast Myanmar. The mission took place from 23 September to 1 October 2019 and was financially supported...

Climate Change Profile: Yemen

Source: Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2018

Countries: Yemen

Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Conflict Prevention, Disasters, Gender, Governance, Land, Livelihoods, Renewable Resources

Added: 12/03/2019

Yemen faces serious risks from climate change that further threaten the already fragile state of the country1. As climate change and rapid population growth put more and more pressure on critical resources, especially water, the Yemen shows what may happen in the region as a whole2. Yemen is a predominantly...

Côte d’Ivoire: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment

Source: UNEP, 2015

Countries: Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast

Topics: Extractive Resources, Renewable Resources

Added: 15/03/2016

Upon request of the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, UNEP conducted a comprehensive assessment of the status of the environment in Côte d’Ivoire in a number of key areas impacted by the 2002 civil war and unrest following elections in 2010, in which the incumbent President refused to accept defeat. In...

Disaster as a Catalyst for Military Expansionism: Case of the Nicobar Islands 

Source: Economic and Political Weekly, 2015

Author(s): Pankaj Sekhsaria

Countries: India

Topics: Governance

Added: 25/01/2016

The earthquake that triggered the south and south-east Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004 also caused a significant and permanent shift in the lay of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The northern Andaman Islands saw a lift of up to five feet while the Nicobars in the south subsided in...

Aggravating the Resource Curse: Decentralisation, Mining and Conflict in Peru

Source: The Journal of Development Studies, 2011

Author(s): Javier Arellano-Yanguas

Countries: Peru

Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance

Added: 12/01/2016

In the early part of this decade, at the beginning of the recent international commodity price boom, Peru adopted major components of the new ‘localist’ policy paradigm for the management of natural resources. A large fraction of revenues were transferred to the subnational governments in the mining areas. Additionally, the...

Water Scarcity and Allocation in the Tarim Basin: Decision Structures and Adaptations on the Local Level

Source: German Institute of Global and Area Studies: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 2011

Author(s): Niels Thevs

Countries: Indonesia

Topics: Renewable Resources

Added: 12/01/2016

The Tarim River is the major water source for all kinds of human activities and for the natural ecosystems in the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China. The major water consumer is irrigation agriculture, mainly cotton. As the area under irrigation has been increasing ever since the 1950s, the lower and middle...

Water Conflicts among Different User Groups in South Bali, Indonesia

Source: Human Ecology, 2011

Author(s): Sophie Straus

Countries: Indonesia

Topics: Conflict Causes, Renewable Resources

Added: 12/01/2016

The overexploitation of water resources in the region of South Bali, near one of the island’s tourist centres, is exemplified by a subak in Sanur at the tail end of an irrigation system. Tensions between the social institutions for local water management and powerful, state-backed stakeholders in water distribution from...